Folding collapsible table, chair, &amp;c.



No. 666,0. Patented Ian. l5, l90l.

F. MACK.

FOLDING COLLA'PSIBLE TABLE, CHAIR, 8w.

(Application filed m 5, 1900.) (No Model.)

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TINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRITZ MACK, OF NUREMBERG, GERMANY.

FOLDlNG COLLAPSIBLE TABLE, CHAIR, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,017, dated January15 1901.

Application filed May 5, 1900- Serial No. 15,660. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRITZ MACK, a subject of the German Emperor,residing at Nuremberg, Bavaria, Empire of Germany, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Folding Tables or the Like, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved folding orcollapsible device as a support for tables, chairs, and like articles;and it consists in the employment of lazytongs arranged to form acollapsible, angular, or three-legged support, as hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tableembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is adetail viewof the stretcher forholding the lazy-tongs in a distended position; Fig. 3, a side elevationof said table collapsed; Fig. 4, a sectional plan view on the line 4 4of Fig. l of the legs or support detached; Fig. 5, a top plan view ofsaid table collapsed with the legs and stretcher in dotted lines. Figs.6 and 7 represent a modification, and Fig. 8 a section thereof on theline 8 8 of Fig. 7.

First describing the invention as applied in the form of a three-leggedsupport and as depicted in the first five figures of the draw ings, Aindicates a table-top which may stand as an exponent for any suitablestructure to be supported, and a, b, and 0 represent three sets oflazy-tongs arranged in intersecting vertical planes, so as to radiatefrom each other as a tripodal support. The inner upper arms a b c ofthese lazy-tongs are mutually interconnected by hinge-joints through acasting B, which is firmly secured to the table, while the outer upperarms a b c are free for slip-contact with the under side of the table.

In order to hold the lazy-tongs properly extended, a suitable stretcherd is employed, which is hingingly secured to any appropriate joint ofthe lazy-tongs or to one of the knuckles d of a series interconnectingthe insetting-joints of said lazy-tongs and may be clamped betweendistended members of the lazy-tongsas, for instance, by a counter-hook dtaking over an opposing knuckle.

Suitable feet e f g are arranged on the three outer lower arms of thelazy-tongs, the corresponding inner arms thereof being advisably'interconnected by a knuckle, as aforesaid, somewhat above the plane ofthe feet.

In Figs. 6, 7, and SI have shown an arrangement adapted to use withoblong or rectangular tables A or other articles requiringWidely-separated supports. Herein two pairs of lazy-tongs h and 'i,arranged divergently in intersecting vertical planes and interconnectedat their inner joints along the line of intersection by knuckles jand tothe table by a'knuckle-block j, are employed, one pair at each end ofthetable. Stretchers 7t and one for each pair, similar to the stretcheremployed with the above-described tripodal set, serve to hold thelazy-tongs distended, the tongs being readily collapsible when saidstretchers are released.

I claim 1. The combination with a table or like article, of a supporttherefor comprising lazytongs arranged in divergent planes intersectingeach other with their insetting joints hingingly interconnected alongthe line of intersection, and a stretcher for holding said tongsdistended.

2. The combination with a table or like article, of a tripodal supporttherefor, comprising three sets of lazy-tongs set radiatingly from eachother with their insetting joints hingingly interconnected, and astretcher hinged to one of the joints and adapted to be clamped to anopposing joint.

3. The combination of the table, the angularly-arranged lazy-tongs, theknuckles interconnecting the insetting joints of said lazytongs, and thestretcher hinged to one of said knuckles and provided with acounter-hook to take over an opposing knuckle.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRITZ MACK.

Witnesses:

HEINRICH FIGTH, BERNHARD BATTY.

